mr clinton sanctioned the nato air raids that forced the late serbian president, slobodan milosevic,one of europe's most mordant living painters. dame paula rego studied at the slade school of fine art in london and in the 19605 exhibited alongside david hockney. she created a series of paintings discussing abortion in portugal. we report on an artist who, through her work, has also championed political and social causes. the artist dame paula rego, now in her 80s and weakened by a stroke, still goes to her studio almost every day. her son gave me a tour of her work, which was overtly political. she used her pictures as a way of undermining and criticising the portuguese fascist resume. my mother was very outrageous and took huge risks with her pictures and went crazy in her studio, but at home she was quite a straightforward woman. i think that if you do pictures, they are about what's inside you as much as what's outside you, but that you've got secrets and stories that you want to put out there in the pictures. in 1998, paula rego produced a set of large pastel pictures in respons